Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
All I'm saying is, where relationships are concerned, don't confuse length with strength. — Matt Dunn Copy Share Image
Thorkell Mylrea had waited long for a dead man's shoes, but he was wearing them at length. — Hall Caine Copy Share Image
I go to great lengths to make certain situations feel right to the reader. — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
When in doubt, observe and ask questions. When certain, observe at length and ask many more questions. — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
A playwright... is... the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I can’t reveal the mystery to either saint or sinner; I can’t state at length what I’ve said curtly; I achieve an… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
People stay together and stay true only as long as they both want to. And all the promises in the world don’t… — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on… — Georges Clemenceau Copy Share Image
But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm's length of the shore! I must reach… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
I began writing and became attached to writing at an early age. I began by writing poetry and experimenting with dialogues: modest… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
About the gnostic writers themselves and the setting in which they lived we know little, although gnostic Christians were influential enough to… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
When I give the go ahead, go ahead," Alyss said, the jungle gym having come to a stop less than a gwormmy-length… — Frank Beddor Copy Share Image
'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
In 1970 or '71, early in the magazine, Michael O'Donoghue did maybe eight pages of a 1958 yearbook, from Ezra Taft Benson… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a long passageway, recognize each other and immediately pretend they haven… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Religion is the yeast of death cakes. It is the most awful agent on a vulnerable mind. It's the refuge of alienated… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
The shadow of a cornstalk on the ground is lovely, but it is no denial of its loveliness to see as one… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Gould carried the art of bending over backward to positively supine lengths. Why shouldn't we comment on God, as scientists? ... A… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
On resting in between reps: It varies with the length of the set. 5s or fewer get a breath to reset. Longer… — Mark Rippetoe Copy Share Image
Let us realise [that] we are the infinite power. Who put a limit to the power of mind? Let us realise we… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Her companion's discourse now sunk from its hitherto animated pitch, to nothing more than a short, decisive sentence of praise or condemnation… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A scientist strives to understand the work of Nature. But with our insufficient talents as scientists, we do not hit upon the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Temperance referred not abstaining, but going the right length and no further...of course it may be the duty of a particular Christian,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The great age of the earth will appear greater to man when he understands the origin of living organisms and the reasons… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
While the fashion industry may, at least at the top end, be thriving, the notion of fashion itself is becoming more and… — Rebecca Mead Copy Share Image
No true geologist holds by the development hypothesis;-it has been resigned to sciolists and smatterers;-and there is but one other alternative. They… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
There is no ideal length, but you develop a little interior gauge that tells you whether or not you're supporting the house… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
The night was at her disposal. She might walk back to Great Mop and arrive very late; or she might sleep out… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image